At Last - and to Great Rejoicing - the Oxford Fine Press Fair 2022 opened its doors. By Griselda Heppel.
Wood Engravings by Peter Holland I may have mentioned before .... that while my books are published in the modern, mass-produced way, my husband goes to the opposite extreme, commissioning fine, hand printed and bound books using traditional letterpress. Two years ago he, together with wood engraver Pete Lawrence, brought out 2020 Vision: Nineteen wood engravers, one collector and the artists who inspired them , beautifully printed by Pat Randle at Nomad Letterpress and handbound by Roger Grech . Produced to celebrate the centenary of The Society of Wood Engravers , all that was needed was the biennial Oxford Fine Press Book Fair to launch it in March 2020, and …. But you know the rest. The pandemic happened and the Book Fair didn’t. Not in March, nor in November 2020. 2021 came and went, with not a rustle of antique page or handmade paper in Oxford (oh, except for business as usual in the Bodleian, of course). In November 2021 a flutter went through the book world as Ludlow Boo...